Cost-Effective 40 MIPS 16-bit Microcontroller - PIC24HJ12 - Microchip

Microchip announced the PIC24HJ12 family, the low priced 40 MIPS 16-bit microcontroller. Price of the new microcontrollers is starting at $1.99 each (for 10K qty).

Sumit Mitra, Microchip, said:

The PIC24 16-bit microcontroller architecture was designed for engineers that need to migrate from 8-bit architectures…

With 92 16-bit products in four compatible families, Microchip has created a broad platform to serve customer needs for many years, even as they scale up to DSP-enabled applications. Additionally, development tool investments can be preserved with 8-bit migrations, as our MPLAB Integrated Development Environment is compatible with the smallest 8-bit PIC microcontrollers through our entire 16-bit microcontroller and Digital Signal Controller (DSC) lineup…

Key features of PIC24HJ12 microcontrollers  include:

• 40 MIPS performance in 6×6 mm packages
• 12 Kbytes of Flash and 1 Kbyte of RAM
• Analog-to-Digital Converter w/ up to 10 channels, and user-selectable 10-bit or 12-bit mode (10-bit mode enables simultaneous sampling, eliminating lag time between samples)
• 1 UART, 1 SPI and 1 I2C Port

The PIC24HJ12 family also features Peripheral Pin Select, which allows designers to remap digital I/O to optimize board layout-enabling smaller boards, less noise and the use of a lower pin count microcontroller.

Development Tools
The PIC24HJ12 family is supported by the full complement of tools that are common to all of Microchip's controllers, including the free MPLAB Integrated Development Environment with its Visual Device Initializer component, which graphically assists designers in mapping pins and initializing code for the on-chip Peripheral Pin Select pin-mapping function. The MPLAB C30 C compiler provides industry-leading code densities, along with math and peripheral libraries. For emulation and debugging, Microchip offers the full-featured MPLAB REAL ICE tool and the low-cost MPLAB ICD 2 tool. Finally, the new 16-bit 28-pin starter board (part #DM300027) can be used for development with any of Microchip's 28-pin 16-bit microcontroller and DSCs.

The PIC24HJ12GP201 is available in 18-pin SOIC and SDIP packages. The PIC24HJ12GP202 is available in 28-pin QFN, SOIC and SDIP packages.

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